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Old 01-21-2019, 03:04 PM   #1
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Drastic Size difference in AZW3 vs EPUB (Overdrive library)

So I get a lot of books from the Overdrive library, and I assumed the Kindle and Adobe EPUB versions were the same quality, but I noticed a huge difference in sizes between AZW3 and EPUB for the same books. For instance, there's a book with lots of pictures that comes to roughly 270 megabytes in EPUB format, but it's AZW3 format is only 27 megabytes.

Is the kindle version extremely compressed or am I missing something?
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Books in KF8 (azw3) format tend to have reduced image resolution. See my recent post in the "Best practice to add an image" thread for another example.

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Books in KF8 (azw3) format tend to have reduced image resolution. See my recent post in the "Best practice to add an image" thread for another example.

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